A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.